<conspiracyFile>Subject: JFK: List of Convenient Deaths
Date: 26 Mar 91 <data type="time" timezone="GMT">01:10:57</data>
Here is the much requested list of people associated with the JFK
assassination whose deaths are called convenient. Bear in mind that
this is a terse summary of each individual's circumstances in relation
to the case. Therefore, you may not get the full appreciation of why
a particular death is suspicious. An asterisk indicates that a death is
particularly suspicious. Some
These deaths were part of why the House Select Committee on Assassinations
investigation got started. However, they concluded that due to the highly
varied backgrounds of people involved, a proper actuarial study was not
possible.
Aside from the likelihood of x number of deaths over a period of time
of people connected with an invenstigation, there is also the trend that
the number of deaths actually increased closer to the time of these
investigations. The listing below is grouped by investigation. Note that
in 1977, for example, before the HSCA investigation kicked off, six top
FBI officials scheduled to appear before the HSCA died. William C. Sullivan,
for example, was out hunting, when he was shot by a man with a high-powered
rifle who said he mistook Sullivan for a deer. This was *not* investigated
by anyone. And so it goes.
Some of the causes of death listed appear on the surface to be natural.
Keep in mind that the CIA developed methods to "make it look like an
accident". This was documented through the testimony of CIA technicians
to the Church committee who told of TWEP technology (Termination With
Extreme Prejudice) in 1975. These methods are designed to not be detected
in postmortem examinations. I have a couple of exerpts of declassified
CIA documents to demonstrate the case. One of the techniques involves
the injection of cancer cells, heart attack inducement, as well as non-
chemical techniques which require no special equipment. Based on the
strange circumstances of Jack Ruby's death in prison (he died from lung
cancer but the cancer cells were not the type that originate in the
respiratory system). Ruby wrote notes and spoke to several people saying
that jfk was killed by a conspiracy and that he had been maneuvered into
killing Oswald who was a fall guy. He claimed to have been injected with
cancer cells when treated with shots for a cold. He died just before he
was to testify in Congress. He had told congressional investigators that
he wanted to talk but he needed protection.
This list does not include the names of the many people who claimed that
their lives were threatened physically and verbally, as well as the many
people questioned by the FBI who were intimidated and forced to change their
testimony to agree with the official lone-gunman version.
This list is not meant to be proof of a conspiracy. I believe a conspiracy
took place based on a plethora of circumstantial evidence, many involving
questions that are very strange if we are to believe the lone-gunman theory.
Many of the points I have raised can be rationally explained, but it is the
confluence of many aspects of the case which make me doubt the official
version of events more than anything else.
The Warren Commission
date name connection with case cause of death
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11/63 karyn kupcinet* tv host's daughter overheard murdered
telling of jfk's death prior
to 11/22/63
12/63 jack zangretti* expressed foreknowlege of gunshot victim
ruby shooting oswald
2/64 eddy benavides* look-alike brother to gunshot to head
tippit shooting witness,
domingo benavides
2/64 betty mcdonald* former ruby employee who suicide by hanging
alibied warren reynolds in dallas jail
shooting suspect
3/64 bill chesher thought to have information heart attack
linking oswald and ruby
3/64 hank killam* husband of ruby employee, throat cut
knew oswald acquaintance
4/64 bill hunter* reporter who was in ruby's accidental shooting
apartment on 11/24/63 by policeman
5/64 gary underhill* cia agent who claimed agency gunshot in head ruled
was involved suicide
5/64 hugh ward* private investigator working plane crash in mexico
with guy bannister and david
ferrie
5/64 delesseps * new orleans mayor passenger in ward's
morrison plane
8/64 teresa norton* ruby employee fatally shot
6/64 guy banister* ex-fbi agent in new orleans heart attack
connected to ferrie, cia,
carlos marcello, oswald
9/64 jim koethe* reporter who was in ruby's blow to neck
apartment on 11/24/63
9/64 c.d.jackson life mag senior vp who unknown
bought zapruder film and
locked it away
10/64 mary pinchot* jfk mistress whose diary murdered
meyer was taken by cia chief
james angleton after her
death
1/65 paul mandal life writer who told of jfk cancer
turning to rear when shot in
throat
3/65 tom howard* ruby's first lawyer, was in heart attack
ruby's apartment on 11/24/63
5/65 maurice gatlin* pilot for guy banister fatal fall
8/65 mona b. saenz* texas employment clerk who hit by dallas bus
interviewed oswald
?/65 david goldstein dallasite who helped fbi trace natural causes
oswald's pistol
9/65 rose cheramie* knew of assassination in hit/run victim
advance, told of riding to
dallas with cubans
11/65 dorothy * columnist who had private drug overdose
kilgallen interview with ruby, pledged
to "break jfk case"
11/65 mrs earl smith* close friend to dorothy kil- unknown
gallen, died two days after
columnist, may have kept notes
12/65 william whaley* cab driver who reportedly drove motor collision (the
oswald to oak cliff only dallas taxi driver
to die on duty
1966 judge joe brown presided over ruby's trial heart attack
1966 karen "little	ruby employee who last talked	gunshot victim
lynn" carlin*	with ruby before oswald
shooting
1/66 earline roberts oswald's landlady heart attack
2/66 albert bogard* car salesman who said oswald suicide
test drove new car
6/66 capt. frank dallas police captain who cancer
martin witnessed oswald slaying, told
warren commission, "there's
alot to be said but probably
be better if i don't say it."
8/66 lee bowers,jr.* witnessed man behind picket motor accident
fence on grassy knoll
9/66 marilyn ruby dancer shot by husband
"delilah"* after one month
walle of marriage
10/66 william pitzer* jfk autopsy photographer who gunshot, ruled
described his duty as a suicide
"horrifying experience"
11/66 jimmy levens fort worth nightclub owner natural causes
who hired ruby employees
11/66 james worrell* saw man flee rear of texas motor accident
schoolbook depository
1966 clarence oliver d.a. investigator who worked unknown
ruby case.
12/66 hank suydam life mag official in charge heart attack
of jfk stories
The Garrison Inquiry
date name connection with case cause of death
<div>
1967 Leonard Pullin civilian navy employee who one-car crash
helped film "last two days"
about assassination
1/67 jack ruby* oswald's slayer lung cancer (he told
family he was injected
with cancer cells)
2/67 harold russell* saw escape of tippit killer killed by cop in
barroom brawl
2/67 david ferrie* acquaintance of oswald, blow to neck, ruled
garrison suspect, employee accidental
of guy bannister
2/67 eladio del anti-castro cuban associate gunshot wound, ax wound
valle * of david ferrie being sought to head
by garrison
3/67 dr. mary ferrie associate working on died in fire, possibly
sherman * cancer research shot
1/68 a.d. bowie asst dallas d.a. prosecuting cancer
ruby
4/68 hiram ingram dallas deputy sheriff, close cancer
friend to roger craig
5/68 dr. nicholas new orleans coroner who ruled heart attack
chetta on death of ferrie
8/68 philip geraci* friend of perry russo, told electrocution
of oswald/shaw conversation
1/69 henry delaune* brother-in-law to coroner chetta murdered
1/69 e.r. walthers* dallas deputy sheriff who was shot by felon
involved in depository search,
claimed to have found .45
caliber slug
1969 charles filmed rifle other than heart attack
mantesana mannlicher-carcano being taken
from depository
4/69 mary bledsoe neighbor to oswald, also new natural causes
ferrie
4/69 john crawford* close friend to both ruby and crash of private plane
wesley frazier, who gave ride
to oswald on 11/22/63
7/69 rev. clyde scheduled to testify about clay fatally shot
johnson * shaw oswald connection
1970 george mcmann* underworld figure connected murdered
to ruby's friends; wife took
film in dealey plaza
1/70 darrel garner arrested for shooting warren drug overdose
reynolds, released after
alibi from betty mcdonald
8/70 bill decker dallas sheriff who saw bullet natural causes
hit street in front of jfk
8/70 abraham took famous film of jfk assass, natural causes
zapruder
12/70 salvatore mobster linked to hoffa, murdered
granello* trafficante,castro assassination
plots
1971 james plumeri* mobster tied to mob-cia murdered
assassination plots
3/71 clayton fowler ruby's chief defense atty. unknown
4/71 gen. charles cia deputy director connected collapsed and died
cabell * to anti-castro cubans after physical at
fort myers
The Church Committee Investigation
date name connection to case cause of death
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1972 hale boggs* house majority leader, member disappeared on alaskan
of warren commission who began plane flight
to publicly express doubts
about findings
5/72 j edgar hoover* fbi director who pushed "lone	heart attack (no
assassin" theory		autopsy)
9/73 thomas davis* gun runner connected to both electrocuted trying
ruby and cia to steal wire
2/74 j.a. milteer* miami right-winger who heater explosion
predicted jfk's death and
capture of scapegoat to a
police informant
1974 dave yaras* close friend to both Hoffa murdered
and jack ruby
7/74 earl warren chief justice who reluctantly heart failure
chaired warren commission
8/74 clay shaw* prime suspect in garrison possible cancer
case, reportedly a cia
contact with ferrie and
e. howard hunt
1974 earle cabell mayor of dallas on 11/22/63 natural causes
whose brother, gen charles
cabell, was fired from cia
by jfk
6/75 sam giancana* chicago mafia boss slated to murdered
tell about cia-mob death
plots to senate committee
1975 clyde tolson j edgar hoovers asst and natural causes
roommate
7/75 allan sweatt dallas deputy sheriff involved natural causes
in investigation
12/75 gen. earl contact between cia and jfk unknown
wheeler
1976 ralph paul ruby's business partner heart attack
connected with crime figures
4/76 dr. charles gov john connally's physician heart attack
gregory
6/76 william harvey* cia coordinator for cia-mob complications of
assassination plans against heart surgery
castro
7/76 john roselli* mobster who testified to stabbed and stuffed
senate, was to appear again in metal drum
House Select Committee on Assassinations
date name connection with case cause of death
<div>
1/77 william pawley* former brazilian embassador gunshot, ruled suicide
connected to anti-castro cubans
and crime figures
3/77 george * close friend to both oswald and gunshot wound, ruled
demohrenschildt bouvier family (jackie kennedy's suicide
parents), cia contract agent
3/77 carlos prio* formerly cuban president, gunshot wound, ruled
soccaras money man for anti-castro cubans suicide
3/77 paul raigorodsky business friend of george natural causes
demohrenschildt and wealthy
oilman
5/77 lou staples* dallas radio talk show host gunshot wound to head
who told friends he would ruled suicide
break assassination case
6/77 louis nichols former number-3 man in fbi heart attack
worked on jfk assassination
8/77 alan belmont fbi official who testified to "long illness"
warren commission
8/77 james cadigan fbi document expert who fall in home
testified to warren commission
8/77 joseph ayres* chief steward on jfk's air shooting accident
force one
8/77 francis powers* u-2 pilot downed in russia in helicopter crash (he
1960 reportedly ran out
of fuel
9/77 kenneth jfk's closest aide natural causes
o'donnell
10/77 donald kaylor fbi fingerprint chemist heart attack
10/77 j.m. english former head of fbi forensic heart attack
sciences laboratory
11/77 william former number-3 man in fbi, hunting accident
sullivan * headed division 5, counter-
espionage and domestic intelligence
1978 c.l. "lummie" dallas deputy sheriff who natural causes
lewis arrested mafia man braden in
dealey plaza
9/78 garland slack man who said oswald fired at unknown
his target at rifle range
1/79 bill lovelady depository employee said to complications from
be man in doorway in ap heart attack
photo
6/80 jesse curry dallas police chief at time of heart attack
assassination
6/80 dr. john psychiatrist who testified ruby heart attack, but pills
holbrook was not insane and notes found
1/81 marguerite mother of accused assassin cancer
oswald
10/81 frank watts chief felony prosecutor for natural causes
dallas d.a.
1/82 peter gregory original translator for marina natural causess
oswald and secret service
5/82 dr. james pathologist allowed to see jfk died while jogging,
weston autopsy material for hsca ruled natural causes
8/82 will griffin fbi agent who said oswald cancer
"definitely an informant"
10/82 w. marvin fbi official who helped natural causes
gheesling supervise jfk investigation
3/84 roy kellerman secret service agent in charge unknown
of jfk limousine
Source: "Crossfire", Jim Marrs, Carroll and Graf, 1989.
--
Steve Feinstein</conspiracyFile>